318 vs. Cummins
 

This happened not to long ago. At my school we always have heated debates on what is faster, gas or diesel, and i am on the gas side of things. So there is a kid with a 97 cummins auto RCLB 4x4 bone stock except for dual 5in stacks. He thinks he can take my RCSB ram 4x4 with a 318 5 speed stock except for k&n intake and single 3 1/2in exhaust. I told him to meet me at NR 40 and Mink St. going east on saturday at 11pm. He shows up and we wait for the light to go to green. I rev it up to about 2500rpm while he seems to be going off idle. The light finally changes to green. I dump the clutch and it side steps a touch and all I see is a big green and silver ram blowing out black smoke in front of me. I feather the clutch to get back under control. On the 1-2 upshift i get spin but the lsd catches it and now we're off the races. Up to about 50 he has me but my lighter weight advantage comes to play. I finally pass him at about 60 and i don't look back, runnin her as hard as possible. I finally let off at 90 by which i had 5 lengths on him. At school I didn't hear anything more about diesels for a good couple weeks.

nice kill man. regular cab 1/2 ton truck with stacks? :jest:

Good kill. Be careful of any of the newer diesels. They are a good bit faster.

No mine has a single 3 1/2 out the side after the right rear wheel

Good kill man. :) Have any ETs on the Ram??

nah no ET's the closest track which is only 10 miles from my house is NHRA sanctioned and you need to be 18 to drive or have a parent sign off for you.

i never knew that stock diesels poured black smoke out the exhaust. from what i know only the ones with some good mods pour any black smoke out.

those diesels can be quick and I know the newer ones can pick up serious power with just a programmer. They have better torque too, which is what a heavy truck needs to get up and go.

I will attest to the new diesels being much faster than older ones. I would smoke the doors off a stock hemi 4x4 any day of the week and twice on sunday with my very mildly modded cummins. I have beaten 2x4 hemis as well as 5.3 liter chevy 4x4, 4x2 and fords are a joke. These were all extended cab or quad cab models, same as my truck. Nice kill anyway.

my old 84' diesel 6.2l GMC Classic Sierra rclb used to pour black smoke out when i took off...

hmm maybe that has something to do with why its been sitting at my shop and hasnt ran for 4 yrs, lol.